Board 8 > Aww Yeah Platinum #561 GET! - Alan Wake II

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https://www.truetrophies.com/game/Alan-Wake-II/trophies?gamerid=5932

https://twitter.com/shineget64/status/1721008937154068891

It's not a loop, it's a spiral.

Not going to get much into the plot details here, but it feels like everything Remedy has been experimenting on in their games for 2 decades now has finally been perfected down to a science in Alan Wake II. The game and reality have been seamlessly merged into an unforgettable experience, made only better if you've played their past games. Mainly Alan Wake 1 and Control, but there's still a lot of nods to Max Payne and Quantum Break in here too. I'm guessing there will be an Alan Wake 3 at some point, but we still have the yet unreleased NG+ (with narrative changes) and two DLC episodes to get to first so we'll see where we're at after those, but at the very least the game does spend time to set up Control 2 so that's exciting going forward

Compared to Alan Wake Remastered's trophy list the platinum here is much much easier. Due to the sandbox-ish nature of the maps and abilities that point out where all the collectibles are later on it's kinda hard to miss everything and there's less points of no return compared to the chapter by chapter linear structure of the first game. Some of the collectibles you also don't have to find them all (like the manuscript pages) while others you do (like the charms and videos). Also no second playthrough required for platinum since NG+ isn't in the game yet. I'm hoping that will add some extra trophies to obtain though to make it extra worthwhile.

Anyway uhhhhh....you shouldn't read this topic about it you should just play the game IMHO. Maybe we'll see it in a top 10 list of sorts in the coming 2 months

oh ya gameplaywise there's a bigger focus on survival horror in this game, it felt more like Resident Evil 4 style gameplay but with the flashlight mechanics. You don't combat nearly as many Taken as you did in the first game, but each individual enemy feels more difficult to deal with. I definitely wasn't feeling fatigued by the combat by the end though, which was definitely an issue with the first game.